On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Michael Sinatra wrote:

// RFC 2131).  In routing, the zero net (as designated by 0.0.0.0) is the
// default net such that it represents everything that is not on subnet.  In

	Actually, that's just because if you want to include everything
mathematically, you have to start at the beginning.  :)  0.0.0.0 doesn't
mean everything unless you include the netmask (0.0.0.0).  You could very
easily have a network 0.0.0.0/28 or whatever, and still have a route to
0.0.0.0/0.

	When did 0 begin to represent ``this host?''  That sounds like an
old bug that people got used to.

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